I work as a web coordinator for three very different faculties at a university in Sydney. This is my story...
I think I might have to warn that this post is a little critical. I do not doubt that Raoul Vera is a very competent and highly dedicated Google employee with a lot of great ideas. However, I do doubt that it was a smart move to let him make this presentation. He admitted himself […]
Happy new year to all of you! A colleague of mine sent me a link to a blog post on university web sites with a little rant about how committees can ruin a crystal clear message.
The author seems to have had quite a few bad experiences with committees:
“It seems that committees have the ability to […]
Australia is heading towards a very interesting system of fund allocation for research at universities: the (in-)famous Research Quality Framework (RQF). In a nutshell, from early 2008, research funds will be allocated according to the impact that research has on the national and international research community. How exactly that works, I don’t really know, but […]
By mere chance, I stumbled upon a very interesting web page that listed all of the Australian university networks and their members:
Groupings of Universities in Australia
That in itself is not very fascinating, institutions claim to be part of networks all the time. However, when I started checking out all the listed university web sites for […]
The University of Wollongong at Australia’s east coast (just a couple hours south of Sydney) introduced their Virtual Tour a while back. I couldn’t find a specific date, but I was introduced to it by a colleague at least 6 months back.
University of Wollongong Virtual Tour
The tour is promoted heavily on the whole UOW web […]
I actually don’t know when Macquarie University went live with this new part of their web site (I think it was on 4 October 2006), I stumbled upon it about 1 week ago, and thought it might be nice to talk about it after going through most of their contributions. I also do NOT work […]
As I’ve written before, we just revealed the new web site for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences a couple of weeks ago, and I just thought I would share some of the reasons behind some of the more controversial decisions of the information architecture and the general usability of the site.
Today, I would […]
I have now spent several nights roaming through the web, looking for people who might have similar blogs to mine, but for some reason I just can’t find any. Am I the only university employee who wants to share experience in his field? Or am I unknowingly breaking several laws, and it’s one of these […]
On Monday, we launched the new Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences web site!
UTS: Humanities and Social Sciences
We started as early in the morning as we could, also choosing the Monday because it would give us 5 potential days to fix the biggest problems that might occur. We started the whole process of transfering the […]
Well, I admit it’s “just” a beta, but it seems to perform flawlessly on my machine: the RAW update for Adobe Photoshop CS2. Now, all the Canon EOS 400D owners can sleep more easily. Check it out:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3544
All the new cameras it supports:
Canon EOS 400D / Rebel XTi
Leica D-LUX3
Leica Digilux 3
Nikon D80
Panasonic DMC-LX2
Pentax K100D
Took them about […]